Cakebread Cellars is a Napa Valley winery known for its Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc wines, which are internationally distributed.

[1] Founded in 1973 by Jack and Dolores Cakebread in Rutherford, California, the winery produces approximately 200,000 cases of wine per year.

[3] After Jack completed his military service during the Korean War, the couple settled in Oakland with their three sons, Steve, Dennis, and Bruce.

In 1972, while taking photographs for Nathan Chroman's book Treasury of American Wines, Jack and Dolores Cakebread offered to purchase the Sturdivant Ranch in Rutherford, California.

The Sturdivant family accepted their offer, and soon the Cakebreads were attending winemaking classes at the University of California, Davis, where they learned from local vintners Louis M. Martini and Robert Mondavi.

[6] After introducing state-of-the-art neutron probe technology to maximize vineyard production, Cakebread Cellars began marketing internationally in the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore in 1984.

In the fall of 1986, Cakebread hosted its first American Harvest Workshop to showcase prominent chefs and artisan food purveyors from around the country.

[6] In 1995, Cakebread introduced Three Sisters and Benchland Select, and purchased a 60-acre former apple orchard in Anderson Valley and began developing this vineyard for Pinot Noir and Chardonnay.

[6] In 1998, Cakebread purchased 200 acres on Howell Mountain and began developing these hillside vineyards into what would become Dancing Bear Ranch.

[6] In 2006, the winery purchased its Milton Road property in Carneros, and the following year the east addition to the main building was completed with tasting areas and lab space.

That same year, the company initiated plans to pave a new parking lot, relocate the bottling line, add new storage space, and build a new visitor facility.

Cakebread Cellars currently owns thirteen sites totaling 982 acres, 460 of which are currently planted in eleven vineyards[9] that produce approximately 75,000 cases of wine per year.